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Nick and Tesla and the High-Voltage Danger Lab
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Nick and Tesla and the High-Voltage Danger Lab

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-05
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  • Publisher: Quirk Books

Nick and Tesla are bright 11-year-old siblings with a knack for science, electronics, and getting into trouble. When their parents mysteriously vanish, they’re sent to live with their Uncle Newt, a brilliant inventor who engineers top-secret gadgets for a classified government agency. It’s not long before Nick and Tesla are embarking on adventures of their own—engineering all kinds of outrageous MacGyverish contraptions to save their skin: 9-volt burglar alarms, electromagnets, mobile tracking devices, and more. Readers are invited to join in the fun as each story contains instructions and blueprints for five different projects. In Nick and Tesla’s High-Voltage Danger Lab, we meet the characters and learn how to make everything from rocket launchers to soda-powered vehicles. Learning about science has never been so dangerous—or so much fun!

Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

Nick and Tesla's Secret Agent Gadget Battle

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-06
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  • Publisher: Quirk Books

After foiling a gang of kidnappers and fending off an army of robots, 11-year-old siblings Nick and Tesla Holt could use a little rest! But as their third mystery opens, they discover there’s a spy in their midst, searching for secrets in the home of their beloved (and slightly crazy) Uncle Newt. Is it the new laboratory assistant? The exterminator? The housekeepers? Or someone completely unexpected? To expose the mystery agent, Nick and Tesla must engineer all kinds of outrageous contraptions, from code wheels and fingerprint powder to spy cameras and burglar detectors. Best of all, instructions are included throughout the story, so you can build the projects, too!

Nick and Tesla's Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Nick and Tesla's Super-Cyborg Gadget Glove

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-07
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  • Publisher: Quirk Books

Einstein is running amok! Darwin is losing his head! The science museum in Half Moon Bay is in big trouble because its robotic replicas of history’s greatest scientists keep going kablooey! As 11-year-old amateur inventors Nick and Tesla Holt try to uncover the cause, they’ll need to keep adding all-new gadgets to their latest creation, a customized super-cyborg glove. Follow the action, and then follow the illustrated instructions to build your own gadget glove with four incredible functions: LED signal light, emergency alarm, sound recorder, and UV secret-message revealer!

Nick and Tesla's Robot Army Rampage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Nick and Tesla's Robot Army Rampage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-04
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  • Publisher: Quirk Books

Nick and Tesla return in an all-new, robot-filled adventure! When a rash of robberies hits the town of Half Moon Bay, 11-year-old sleuths Nick and Tesla are determined to catch the criminals—but to do so, they'll have to build a host of new gadgets and gizmos! In this robot-themed follow-up to Nick and Tesla's High-Voltage Danger Lab, the brother-and-sister duo build four different droids out of ordinary household objects—and illustrated instructions are included throughout the story, so you can build them, too! Make bristlebots that buzz, hoverbots that float above the ground, battlebots that duke it out, and more! Can Nick and Tesla catch the criminal mastermind—and foil his army of rampaging robots—before it's too late?

Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 265

Nick and Tesla's Solar-Powered Showdown

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-10
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  • Publisher: Quirk Books

Kid inventors Nick and Tesla Holt have outsmarted crooks, spies, and kidnappers. Now they have to crack their biggest mystery yet: Where the heck are their parents? To outwit the criminal mastermind who’s holding their parents hostage, the twins will need all their brainpower, the help of their eccentric Uncle Newt, and an assortment of homemade solar gadgets. Will the Holt family be reunited at last? Or will a hijacked solar satellite beam down doom from the skies? The adventure includes instructions for creating a solar-powered hot-dog cooker, alarm, secret listening device, and model car, plus a nighttime signal cannon that fires illuminated ping-pong balls.

STEM to Story
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 342

STEM to Story

Bring STEM to life for students with zombies, rockets, celebrities, and more STEM to Story: Enthralling and Effective Lesson Plans for Grades 5-8 inspires learning through fun, engaging, and meaningful lesson plans that fuse hands-on discovery in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with creative writing. The workshop activities within the book are the innovative result of a partnership between 826 National's proven creative writing model and Time Warner Cable's Connect a Million Minds, an initiative dedicated to connecting young people to the wonders of STEM through hands-on learning. Authentically aligned with both the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Scienc...

Good Housekeeping Amazing Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Good Housekeeping Amazing Science

Turn your kitchen into a laboratory with 80+ STEAM science experiments for kids ages 7-12, all using easy-to-find materials and ranked by a parent-friendly “mess-o-meter”! Join the experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute Labs on a science adventure! Ranging from quick and simple to more complex, these kids science experiments cover core STEAM concepts and feature step-by-step instructions, plus 200+ colorful photos. Using the scientific method, kids will tap into their superpowers of logic and deduction as they: • Build a solar oven and make s’mores • Create an active rain cloud in a jar • Use static electricity created with a balloon to power a light bulb • Grow your own vegetables—from scraps! • Investigate the forces that make an object sink or float • And so much more! Also featuring secondary experiments for further learning, incredible facts, and a “Mystery Solved!” section with simple explanations for each outcome, this sturdy hardcover is the perfect classroom resource or gift for aspiring biologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, and mathematicians.

Science Experiments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 146

Science Experiments

Daring experiments from Robert Winston, to get the brain cells buzzing! Introduce your child to science with Professor Robert Winston's Super Science Experiments. These exciting hands-on experiments from creating balloon rockets or glow in the dark jelly to making metal detectors, will help your child get to grips with science. Super Science Experiments covers all areas of science from life on earth to physical science. There are projects for all abilities, from quick & easy science in seconds to trickier group projects for schools. Packed with easy step-by-steps and over 350 photos and illustrations, for explosively fun activities that you can do at home!

Guinness World Records: Science and Stuff
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Guinness World Records: Science and Stuff

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-01-11
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Packed with spectacular superlatives, shocking stats, fantastic facts and fun figures, Science and Stuff celebrates the simple joy in finding things out. What can cats teach us about the laws of physics? Why was cabbage banned on the International Space Station? (Can you fart in space?) And would a penny dropped from the Empire State Building really kill someone? (Short answer: No!)But it's not all facts and stats. The feature chapter just for Makers, introduced by our very own mad professor Burnaby Q. Orbax, challenges you to attempt record-breaking science experiments at home, from the fastest Mentos & Soda rocket car to the most slime thrown and caught in a minute!Join us as we rise from the deepest depths of the ocean, where weird glowing fish hunt in the darkness, to the mountaintop observatories where scientists unravel the secrets of the universe.

Robots in American Popular Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

Robots in American Popular Culture

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-06-27
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  • Publisher: McFarland

 They are invincible warriors of steel, silky-skinned enticers, stealers of jobs and lovable goofball sidekicks. Legions of robots and androids star in the dream factories of Hollywood and leer on pulp magazine covers, instantly recognizable icons of American popular culture. For two centuries, we have been told tales of encounters with creatures stronger, faster and smarter than ourselves, making us wonder who would win in a battle between machine and human. This book examines society's introduction to robots and androids such as Robby and Rosie, Elektro and Sparko, Data, WALL-E, C-3PO and the Terminator, particularly before and after World War II when the power of technology exploded. Learn how robots evolved with the times and then eventually caught up with and surpassed them.